Blog
Nov 2007
1
Cancer Risk
In the news this week has been a story about cancer risk . A major reivew of scientific studies from the last five years has concluded that pretty much everyone should lose weight, not drink any alcoh..
Oct 2007
31
What is God like?
One of humankind’s most enduring questions is: what is God like? To what might we compare him? I will write more on this in the future - I’m currently writing a piece on revelation, which will look at..
Oct 2007
19
Pooh Studies
If you’ve ever been worried by source criticism of the Bible, you should probably read this .
Oct 2007
19
Five-point Calvinism
I once got into an argument with a leader of a Christian organisation about various things, one of which was five-point Calvinism. The five points helpfully make up the word TULIP: Total depravity Unc..
Oct 2007
18
Judgement and the Old Testament
One of the problems that some Christians have with the idea of penal substitution is the idea of God’s judgement (I know because I’ve been there myself). This concept of a vengeful, wrathful God seems..
Oct 2007
7
Rugby Union
So after my last post on rugby it seems that the ‘consistently good sides’ of Australia and New Zealand failed to live up to their potential. England’s forwards hammered the Wallabies in spectacular f..
Sep 2007
29
Rugby Union
What I want to know is, how do teams like Australia and New Zealand consistently manage to field good sides, when the likes of England and Ireland go through huge ups and downs..? Surely it isn’t a po..
Sep 2007
29
Altering iPhones
I have just been reading some of the articles about Apple disabling iPhones via a software update. The phones in question have been hacked to work on networks other than AT&T, or have had third-pa..
Aug 2007
27
Eclipse and Subversion over SSH
I use subversion for my version control - and I have recently had to set up Eclipse to access the subversion repository on my new server. This proved trickier than expected, largely because of bad ins..
Jun 2007
4
Naked Tony
Naked Blair at centre of art show I have to confess I don’t quite understand the strength of animosity towards Tony Blair in this country. He has made some unpopular decisions, but lots of politicians..